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FRUIT PARING AND 001mm MAGHINE.

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NITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

THOMAS SPEDDING, OFDUNN, COUNTY OF HALDIMARD, ONTARIO, CANADA.

FRUIT PARING AND'CORING MACHINE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 341,514, dated May 11, 1886.

Application filed March 20, 1885.

To all whom, it may concern.-

Be it known that I, THOMAS SPEDDING, of the township of Dunn, in the county of Haldimard and Province of Ontario, Canada, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Fruit Parers and Oorers, of which the following is a specification.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a side view of my machine, partly in section. Fig. 2 is a back view. Fig. 3 is a sectional plan, and Figs. 4 and 5 are details of paring-knife;

A A represent the framework.

At 1) is attached an arm, a, on which is set a partly-circular-like bed-piece, c, which acts a double purpose, as will be fully described. 011 this piece 0 sets the circular-shaped forkframe d d, which revolves loosely around the shaft 0. In this frame at d, at equal distances apart, are the forks jfl/ff. Each fork is constructed with three or more pointed blades, g, and a shaft, it, having rigidly attached to it a pinlon, t.

On the frame A (see Figs. 1 and 3) is secured an arm, j, which supports the gear wheel 70, into which meshes another smaller wheel,Z, by which the power is communicated. On the wheelie is attached the paring-knifem, held in the required position by the following means: a 12 are two lugs in which set the ends The knife is secured upon the end of the elongated armp. A spring, q, fastened as shown, causes the knife to follow the shape of and pare the fruit. 1' rare notches in upper and lower part of frame (I d, (see Fig. 3,) ands s are two stiff springs engaging in same and holding the frame stationary while the fork is under theknife; otherwise the constantly-revolving shaft 0, although running loosely through the frame, would havea tendency to disturb it. Y

B is a gear-wheelfirmly attached to shaft 6, which, when the fork is under the knife, engages with pinion t, and thereby revolves the fork and fruit thereon.

O is anothergear-wheel firmly attached to the base of the circular fork-frame, which at every revolution of shaft If, by means of the partlytoothed wheel a, is moved far enough to bring the fruit which has just been pared from under the paring-knife to the coring device.

Serial No. 159,536. (Model.)

This is constructed and operates as follows: On shaft 6, at its upper extremity, is attached a circular drum-shaped device, 0, having on its surface a peculiar running groove. In this groove travels a button, 1), attached to the center of a long arm, w, whose one end is pivoted to the frame at m, and the other end fastened to a hollow coring'knife, y.

D is a nicely-balanced pin suitably attached to drum 0, which has the effect of dropping the corer once to every two revolutions of the shaft.

It not being necessary for the forks to revolve only when under the paring-knife, the bedpiece 0 only extends from about where the cor ing-knife does its work until the pariug-knife is almost reached. At E this bed-piece is bent down, as shown, in order to allow the forkshafts to be raised, thereby throwing the pinion out of gear and causing the fork to remain stationary, which permits of the putting on of the unpared fruit and taking off of the pared fruit.

The operation of the machine is as follows: The fruitto be pared is placed on the forks and power is communicated to the machine by means of the pulley z, (or in small machines a crank can be suitably arranged to be worked by hand.) This revolves the wheels a b, which in turn revolve the shafts and wheels 0 d Z k. Vhen the first apple is brought under the paring-knife it is rapidly pared. W'hen the teeth on the wheel a mesh into the wheel on the under part of the circular frame at d and cause it to revolve just far enough to bring the pared apple under the corer, and an unpared apple (or other fruit) under the paringknife, the coring-knife, by the means already described, then descends and performs its work. The shaft of the fork bearing the now pared and cored apple,which has been rapidly revolving from the time it reached the paringknife, now strikes the depressed end of the bed-piece c,and at the next revolution of wheel a is raised, throwing its pinion 2' out of gear with the wheel 13, and ceases to revolve, when the apple is then taken off and an un pared one replaced, and so on.

I claim- 1. In a fruit-parer, aseries of fruit-forks mounted upon vertical shafts which are capable of movement up and down, and are equipped with pinions, as shown, in combination with a rotatable frame in which said forks are held, a central gear for engagement with the pinions on the fork-shafts, and a camsurface suitably located and held to disengage the pinions from the central gear during a portion of the rotation of the frame, as set forth.

2. In a fruit-parer, the combination, with the main shaft, of the gear B, secured thereon, a rotatable frame on the main shaft, movable independently thereof, fruitforks having vertical shafts provided with pinions, as described, capable of being moved vertically, acam-plate suitably fixed to disengage the fruit-fork pinion from the gear B during a portion of its circuit, a gear, 0, secured upon the frame, and mechanism, substantially as described, for giving intermittent movement to gear 0, as set forth.

3. The combination, with the fruit fork or forks, the main shaft, and a cam'grooved druni mounted thereon, of the coring tube or device y,mounted at a point over the line of travel of the fruitforks, a pivoted arm, 10, to the free end of which part 3 is secured, and a projection or lug on said part in, which enters the groove in the drum and is caused to elevate and depress the coring tube, as set forth.

4. The combination ofthe fruit fork or forks, the main shaft, and ahub or drum,O,mounted thercon,said hub having a double oamgroove, and a switch pin or piece,D,secured on hub or drum 0 at the entrance to said double groove, a vertically-movable corer, y, and a pivoted arm, to, to which is secured the corer i, said pivoted arm having a projection or pin, 12, extending into the cam-groove, and operating substantially in the manner and for the purpose set forth.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

THOMAS SPED DING.

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